I put JavaScript on my Roomba. This might be the stupidest video you watch all week, but I promise you'll either learn something or be entertained. Full build now up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jAM... - ThreadSky

wesbos.com • 91 days ago

I put JavaScript on my Roomba.

This might be the stupidest video you watch all week, but I promise you'll either learn something or be entertained.

Full build now up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jAM5P7PcK0

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namastelamb.bsky.social•91 days ago

Thanks for the chuckle 👩‍💻

fedme.bsky.social•91 days ago

📌

rianfowler.com•91 days ago

Prototype chain? More like prototype pain.

radiooptimism.tv•91 days ago

Sometimes it’s not about whether your should do it, but whether it can be done.

wesbos.com•91 days ago

Good life lesson - you'll often find delight in exploring things that shouldn't be

herrari.bsky.social•91 days ago

OMG this is a riot! So his Roomba no longer sucks. In more ways than one!

mysterybabylon.bsky.social•90 days ago

"Like any good developer I thought can I put javascript on it?"

Rebuttal: Any good developer would put Doom on it 🤪

martymishkin.bsky.social•81 days ago

I am too ancient to fully understand this (think Fortran77), but I thoroughly enjoyed it.💕🤣

ascharine.bsky.social•91 days ago

Does Shark have documentation? This looks so cool!

wesbos.com•91 days ago

looks like they issued a takedown for most of the info - the opposite of roomba

Still some details here: https://hackaday.io/project/185493/gallery#906822ef1668b119defa5ce9f4d47854

nathanschneider.bsky.social•91 days ago

Google owns YouTube and they are working with the Nazis in the White House.

dwerkoppimhimmel.bsky.social•91 days ago

I watched this and YouTube automatically dubbed it into German with a AI (suppose because of browser settings). It was very fast and switched between a male and female voice. You sounded like Siri on speed with an identity crisis.

AI should never be used like this!

Anyway, cool video!

wesbos.com•91 days ago

Hahaha wow

jesirgb.com•91 days ago

my code sucks thumbnail is crazy

unacomputadora.bsky.social•91 days ago

I despair for the future of humanity, and then I see a video like this, and my hope is restored.

wesbos.com•91 days ago

Haha fantastic

unacomputadora.bsky.social•91 days ago

The world needs more people putting JavaScript on Roombas.🤖🌟

gorhgorh.bsky.social•91 days ago

I learnt quite a few thing from you but plz... Serial com is older than both of us and you just used it to TALK with you romba :) this title is deceving

wesbos.com•91 days ago

Did you watch the video?

gorhgorh.bsky.social•91 days ago

Since you responded so fast probably not enough sorry if I'm Wong I'll take all the blame In one hours after I watched it full

wesbos.com•91 days ago

Not trying to deceive anyone - I explain it entirely in the video and there is JavaScript on the microprocessor

gorhgorh.bsky.social•91 days ago

Also this is cool nontheless

gorhgorh.bsky.social•91 days ago

I'll already bite my tongue, you are clear about everything, I still find the title misleading but there is no deception, sorry

gorhgorh.bsky.social•91 days ago

Still the esp was not on your romba, I still get your point and agree I reacted too fast but.. There is still room for clarification and I would love to discus this further

letspartytilldawn.bsky.social•91 days ago

Seriously?

dwayne-camacho.bsky.social•91 days ago

code. I on anything dont asyncronous support javascript especially

terry-scott.bsky.social•91 days ago

📌

warrentakesphotos.bsky.social•91 days ago

What unholy abomination have you created?!?!?!

benjaminsen.bsky.social•91 days ago

Pretty much the feeling I have every time I look at code that is more than a few weeks old 😅

lgpyikes.bsky.social•91 days ago

Very entertaining albeit outside my skillset lol

thavius.bsky.social•91 days ago

... for now.

theclark10.bsky.social•91 days ago

Robot computer stuff?

Idk

dreyer.com.na•91 days ago

Put a speaker on it and make it randomly scream 'Evaaa' in WALL-E's voice

holcombe67.bsky.social•91 days ago

Only reason covid down and coal industry and gas station technology still pumping deadly fumes in the atmosphere

bobmonsour.com•91 days ago

That was so awesome! Takes me way back to my embedded systems of the 1980s.

lauraba.bsky.social•91 days ago

The day I wrote code to match my grocery list with meals I liked—and it spat out a 3-meals-a-day plan plus a shopping list for what I didn’t have—I was thrilled! A guy at work laughed and kept asking me, “What’s for dinner?” He didn’t get it. But I get you, and trust me, it’s genius!

sciencesays.bsky.social•91 days ago

I’m curious how you keep it updated with your current fridge inventory

lauraba.bsky.social•91 days ago

Sadly, I had it so that it would automatically add the grocery list to the inventory, but alas, that part was manual tweaks.
This was a few years ago in Notion. Btw, I’m a retired accountant lol.

sciencesays.bsky.social•91 days ago

Amazing 🤩

velosol.bsky.social•91 days ago

Were the meals you liked entered as recipes so ingredients matched grocery list?

heavilybauxite.bsky.social•91 days ago

The remarks at ~19 minutes really resonated with me. I'm always looking for some side project(s) to get me excited to learn new things. I've just recently started learning to code.

vanelo.bsky.social•91 days ago

Love this

electric-sheep.bsky.social•91 days ago

You let developers but JavaScript on a server and now they want to put it in everything

wesbos.com•91 days ago

we can't and wont be stopped

frankmaggiore.bsky.social•91 days ago

*clicks on ‘disable Java’*

stufftrj.bsky.social•91 days ago

I want to learn how to mod the audio for mine so I can swap out factory sounds for R2D2.

drlba.bsky.social•91 days ago

Totally awesome video!

wesbos.com•91 days ago

thanks a ton -glad you enjoyed!

drlba.bsky.social•91 days ago

You made a great video.

gwestr.me•91 days ago

I was actually entertained

magetech.bsky.social•90 days ago

The algo figured out my settings. Total catnip. CLICK!

p.s. Please dump Twitter.

p.p.s. I will NEVER call it "X"

aesalysai.yuri.observer•91 days ago

Thats the kinda thing you should skibidie for i hate js you should also hate js

jrfaust.bsky.social•91 days ago

Haha that's awesome dude! Just started using cursor as my daily driver. Game Changer!

kuponinja.bsky.social•91 days ago

So glad to find you on here! Followed and excited to see more content!

Also... Your video randomly inspired me to get some clutter off of my floors that prevented me from running my Roomba for awhile. Dirt Daimyo is now conquering the floor once again!
I feel great on this Friday!

Thanks, lol!

lars-pellarin.bsky.social•91 days ago

That react app is exactly what I expected they would ship my Roomba with! Just gimmi the damned controls already.

olenatheshroomlady.bsky.social•91 days ago

Awesome! But for novices, do not use AI for code 😁

maryhilt.bsky.social•91 days ago

I can see an army of remote Roombas terrorizing cities. Worse than drones. next you'll figure out how to make it fly...oh, lord! Very entertaining. I even understood most of what it was about.
I'm not even a programmer!

bareinthewoods.bsky.social•91 days ago

No, this is the stupidest Roomba video, but def. on par with yours...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvz3LRK263E

highscorsese.bsky.social•91 days ago

grannyturtle45.bsky.social•91 days ago

That was fun

utterboredom.bsky.social•91 days ago

This is awesome! I’ve always wanted to try this.

thereallmb.bsky.social•91 days ago

I choked on my coffee

superlanyard.bsky.social•91 days ago

Program it to do the rumba.

rusty94582.bsky.social•91 days ago

You would have gotten more hits if you used Groovy.

Anything with the word script in it loses all those for whom it should lose...

subsonicmonkey.bsky.social•91 days ago

This is rad!

frogprof.bsky.social•91 days ago

📌

russellhughes1028.bsky.social•91 days ago

Considering how "open sourced" JS is, it's not a bad pick. Personally I would've found Python to be a challenge for myself. Impressive feat nonetheless.

wesbos.com•91 days ago

Micropython is a good and sane choice for microcontrollers

hellwytch.bsky.social•91 days ago

something something garbage collected language

nyxiiieee.bsky.social•91 days ago

not me over here like... maybe I need a roomba >.>

b-black.bsky.social•91 days ago

Trump was recently inaugurated. Trust me when I tell you this clip doesn't even scratch the surface of the dumb videos out there. Thanks for sharing.

navyvet1972.bsky.social•91 days ago

Cool

elleelleh.bsky.social•91 days ago

JavaScript shouldn’t be put on anything. We need to remove it from stuff it is already on.

tom-paine1737.bsky.social•91 days ago

Yeah, it sucks ass, and it amazes me that anyone thinks it's not a shite language.

wesbos.com•91 days ago

Too late it’s in fridges

ricevillage.bsky.social•91 days ago

1970, the rule was "tight code", because maybe you only had 32k to fill

nanaismyname.bsky.social•91 days ago

Both!

thechromeonion.bsky.social•91 days ago

yeah but can you play doom on it?

johnclicks.com•91 days ago

https://youtu.be/_oNgyUAEv0Q

joelhuebner.bsky.social•91 days ago

WTH for??

wesbos.com•91 days ago

50% lulz 50% WTH not

joelhuebner.bsky.social•91 days ago

walkingalchemy.com•91 days ago

Your face on the thumbnail says it all

wesbos.com•91 days ago

resting javascript face

texasrunaway.bsky.social•91 days ago

I thought this was cool. I need coding for dummies. I believe IRobot made a coding “game” for kids at one time. Not sure if they still do. Maybe I’ll start there.

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